Violin Forum/Message Board

They sold in the Sears catalogue for about $40 when the cheapest Markneukirchen boxes were going for $10 or less, I think the Heberleins were a little pricier, an E H Roth would be more, but Lowendal ...

Dave, the youtube links are on the Clavichords page and are of clavichords I built not violins, some people's security system does not allow them to see youtube links, I hope its just a case of you ha ...

After years of relying on a single page web advertisement on violinist.com, I finally bit the bullet and shelled out $245 to godaddy.com to build my own 7 page website for my Southern California Violi ...

1798 is not baroque, but the original "baroque" style necks did not go out of favour till 1800-1850, a 1798 violin with a totally modern neck is very unlikely. In 1798 a neck would be likely ...

Paganini was already concertizing in 1800, do you suppose he played "Il Cannone" (which he possessed at the time) on a boroque set or modern set? Must have been an interesting period for a ...

You are correct that 1798 is post baroque, but incorrect that the neck graft change over occurred at the end of the baroque, when it actually occurred smack dab in the middle of the classica ...

I've used the flexible shaft pen lights but the luthier lights by Doug Wall at Maestronet are like stadium lights.

I've bought, used extensively, and can highly recommend Doug Wall's lights, abou ...

I don't see any evidence of a neck scroll graft, usually rules out 18th century, at least if the neck is original.

Dunov's regularly sell on ebay in the $300-$700 range, or should say are listed on ebay in that range. I saw one at the pawn shop for $180 and thought the price was too high for me, but then again I ...

Been a luthier most of my adult life, I'm 53, apprenticed 8 years part time in violin repair, have now had my own violin business for about 10 years, also spent almost 10 years building clavichords (b ...